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Law Quotes
Rules, choices, and the order behind them.
This page draws on law in a broad sense — the rigorous logic of scientific theory, the real fork in the road between law school and an acting career, and a general preference for a quiet evening over anything more dramatic. For the legal system specifically, see our Legal quotes.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents wanted me to go to law school.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.
- Standing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Days after being sworn in as the nation's top law enforcement officer, Trump's attorney general, the virulently anti-LGBTQ Jeff Sessions, revoked lifesaving guidance promoting the protection and dignity of transgender students.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.
- Elitism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The belief that the law will never 'catch up' to technology is borne in part of tech exceptionalism, a libertarian elitism that derides any kind of legal or regulatory impediment as Luddism.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, nothing is ever that simple in copyright law, and when it comes to music copyright, it's especially convoluted.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't begin to describe how humiliating it is for a law-abiding citizen to be cross-examined in a court of law for a crime he hasn't committed.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
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